Patients Like Me is a patient powered research network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine.[1] On Patients Like Me’s network, people connect with others who have the same disease or condition and track and share their own experiences. In the process, they generate data about the real-world nature of disease that help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, providers and nonprofits develop more effective products, services and care. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients Like Me> (more)

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (more)

In reviewing Ted Gioia's The Jazz Standard-s, Benjamin Schwarz notes how much jazz leveraged the "GreatAmericanSongbook". Items from the Songbook form by far the largest portion of Gioia’s selections, and indeed of any conceivable version of the jazz repertoire. The great overlap between the Songbook and the jazz catalogue largely explains a fact that troubles Gioia—that his book can enshrine “few recent compositions”—and raises doubts about his assertion, supported by passion rather than by argument, that “the jazz idiom [is] a vibrant, present-day endeavor.” (Syncopated Music) (more)

not quite the same as Digital Literacy

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (né Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988)[1] was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He played an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, and collaborated extensively with MilesDavis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Evans (more)

*The concept of the First World originated during the Cold War, involving countries that were aligned with the UnitedStates and the United Kingdom. These countries were largely market economies and generally democracies. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the term "First World" arguably took on a new meaning, coming to be largely synonymous with developed countries. (more)

problem faced only by members of the First World - aka not a real problem (more)

aka non-FirstWorld Syncopated Music

Deb Chachra: on Indicator Species (more)

Engineering School, Industrial Design school (Design School), Architecture School

William Deresiewicz thinks the current young generation is "GenerationSell". *The millennial (Generation Y) affect is the affect of the salesman. Consider the other side of the equation, the Millennials’ characteristic social form. Here’s what I see around me, in the city and the culture: food carts, 20-somethings selling wallets made from recycled plastic bags, boutique pickle companies, techie start-ups, Kickstarter, urban-farming supply stores and bottled water that wants to save the planet. Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business (SmallCo). Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed in those terms... This isn’t only them. The small business is the idealized social form of our time. Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur... Today’s polite, pleasant personality is, above all, a commercial personality. It is the salesman’s smile and hearty handshake, because the customer is always right and you should always keep the customer happy. If you want to get ahead, said Ben Franklin, the original business guru, make yourself pleasing to others... They say that people in Hollywood are always nice to everyone they meet, in that famously fake Hollywood way, because they’re never certain whom they might be dealing with — it could be somebody who’s more important than they realize, or at least, somebody who might become important down the road. Well, we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base. We’re all selling something today, because even if we aren’t literally selling something (though thanks to the Internet as well as the entrepreneurial ideal, more and more of us are), we’re always selling ourselves. We use social media to create a product — to create a brand — and the product is us. We treat ourselves like little businesses, something to be managed and promoted. The self today is an entrepreneurial self, a self that’s packaged to be sold.

Profile of Personal Finance services targeting Generation Y: Wealth Front/Betterment, Learn Vest, Kapit All, Up Start... (more)

Kevin Carson has posted 8 excerpts (see links at end) from his in-process Desktop Regulatory State book. (more)

esp Super Empowered Individual-s (more)

Fabius Maximus on how the USA can succeed/prosper in the future. American Culture appears destined to sweep across the globe... We should not expect the members, let alone the elites, of other societies to like the challenges we inadvertently force upon them... Our goal should be to make this the best possible America, safe and secure. Success at this will come as we build momentum through imagination, initiative, and effective execution... Athens held a winning position similar to ours, and threw it away in an imprudent war... American might be structurally unable to successfully implement large and complex strategies, as discussed in this author's "The Myth of Grand Strategy." ([recommendations](z2006-01-31-FabiusMythGrand Strategy]]) Perhaps this is a problem inherent to a Democracy. Athens also had difficulty with long, complex plans... From this perspective flows a few simple http://fabiusmaximus.com/2008/06/14/solution/), as a substitute for a [[Grand Strategy: Do not increase the cohesion of our enemies. Try not to make new enemies; Don't gamble, adopt slow but sure tactics; Survive until we win. (This is 4th/last in his Grand Strategy series.)

Mark Bernstein [picks](http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul14/The Mobile Software Disaster.html) up the thread started by Brent Simmons exploring whether Micro ISV Mobile app devs are able to Make Money. It turns out, just about nobody is... It’s clear that mobile apps have the ability to make people smile, to make people think, to make people get more stuff done., to let people do things they couldn’t do without them. Making software is productive: it creates value for lots of people. We need to be able to capture some of that value, or people will stop making software... Things aren’t that bad in the desktop world. Hardly anyone is doing great – we’re in the midst of the Great Recession here – but a bunch of us are somewhere between “scraping by” and “I can’t complain.” I’d thought things were far rosier on the mobile side of the fence. Looks like I was mistaken. (more)

Open Source (PHP) WikiEngine. (more)

see Smallest Federated Wiki

see Educational Technology

Klint Finley has a fresh profile on Ward Cunningham's goals/reasons for his Smallest Federated Wiki. (more)